Anyone else not trust their food scale?

drop a handful of non-damaged nickels on your scale. Each nickle should weigh 5g.

First of all... look at your cheese puffs. Are they all the exact same size? Nope. It's difficult to codify something so inexact. That's why they say "about" on their measure.

Secondly... What kind of food scale do you have? Spring and platform? The spring is subject to the whims of nature, so to speak. Hotter, colder, full moon, new moon, living in the mountains or in a desert basin... any and all of these things are going to effect the way your food scale works. (Same goes for body weight/bathroom scales, too. I use a crossbeam counterweight body weight scales which, although it still depends upon a spring, I find it more accurate than any other scale I have owned. Had this one for about fifteen years and it's still going strong and just as accurate as the day it came home.)

I have a computer based, digital food scale which I trust implicity. I food shop at one of the big... BIG food 'club' stores once a month and buy in major quantities. I'm an omnivore (sorry veggie-terrians), and I cut up and portion out everything when I get home. Take ground beef and some will be mixed with seasonings and spices and made into patties. Pork and beef loins get sliced and seasoned. Everything gets measured and weighed, vacuum sealed (well, except the cheese slices - DO NOT vacuum seal cheese - it just gets mushed into one ugly slab.) Chicken (breast meat only, please) gets packaged individually. My son makes turkey BBQ out of the whole bird which is then pre-packaged in one or two-meal sized portions. the burgers get packaged individually, as well, and can be pulled out one, two, four at a time as needed. Then, everything goes into the freezer - DONE! My food scale goes back into its corner on the kitchen rack until the next month.

Not only is this process a time-saver in the long run, but it assures that everything is apportioned equally and appropriately for meals. No guesswork involved!

With things like chips and cheese puffs (Can't think of the last time I actually ate a cheese puff; though I did carry on a long addiction to corn puffs!), contrary to human body weight, the weight of the puffs is more important than the number. Try measuring several piles of your puffs. You'll probably notice that there are variable counts in each pile. Go by the weight, not the number. And, consider re-apportioning them into the sandwich bags and storing them somewhere (out of sight, preferably). You may be less tempted to go for the extra one or two or six or... if the whole bag is there in front of you.

Good luck in your journey to health and fitness.

Now... about the pix from your phone. Since I've never tried to post pix here - phone or computer-based - I'm afraid I cannot answer that one for you. But the techies at MFP are usually pretty quick to respond to questions and there is a FAQs link here as well, which I have found helpful. You may want to check that out. ;-)

Above the reply box there's a camera that you click on and it takes you to your album where you choose a pic from your album. Very simple;-)

glitzy196 wrote: »

1st, can you not post a pic on here from your phone? <<snip>>

healthygreek wrote: »

Above the reply box there's a camera that you click on and it takes you to your album where you choose a pic from your album. Very simple;-)

If there is no option to add a photo from the MFP app on your phone, you are most likely using an Android phone. MFP has yet to figure out how to 1) upload photos in Community and 2) display avatars on the Lollipop Android operating system. For now, use your web browser on Android and "Request desktop site" to load the Web version of MFP on your phone. Personally, I have not tried that yet, but I imagine it should work.